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UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert - Monday 16th July 2007

July 16, 2007

This is the UK400 Club Rare Bird Alert for Monday 16th July 2007, issued at midday and produced in association with Rare Bird Alert Pagers, the premier service for rare bird information in the UK (Hotline Number for incoming sightings 0207 038 2820; membership details phone Brian Egan on 01603 457016).

A EUROPEAN ROLLER remains for its second day 1 mile west of Easington (East Yorks) close to the B1445 and in the vicinity of the 6th telegraph pole west of the radio mast. It is typically wide-ranging and highly mobile and goes missing for long periods of time. In the last hour, it has been showing well south of the B1445.

Elsewhere in Britain, the two adult PECTORAL SANDPIPERS remain at Leighton Moss RSPB (Lancs), being seen distantly from the Eric Morecambe Hide, with another still present at Musselburgh Lagoons wader scrape (Lothian). Two adult Roseate Terns roosted on a sandbank off Holme Golf Course (Norfolk) until at least 0850 hours.

The most remarkable record over the weekend was Norfolk’s 2nd-ever DARK-EYED JUNCO - discovered in a birder’s garden (Dave Curtis) on Saturday 14th July. The bird regularly visited the well-stocked gardens of numbers 6, 8 and 10 The Cornfield in Langham throughout the day and was eventually seen by well in excess of 800 birders. Perhaps even more remarkable was the fact that it wasn’t to be found the next day, a most unusual time of year for a vagrant North American passerine to be migrating. The bird was a first-summer and was relatively obliging, despite the gathered crowds.

Although Dark-eyed Junco was frequently recorded in captivity prior to 1970, it is virtually unheard of now and fits neatly into the previous pattern of North American passerines previously recorded in Britain on the East Coast (several Red-eyed Vireos, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Red-breasted Nuthatch and Indigo Bunting for example, plus both Yellow-billed and Black-billed Cuckoos - many of which are believed to be ship-assisted)

The previous Dark-eyed Junco for Norfolk was caught exhausted on an oil supply vessel alongside the Shell Bravo gas platform 49/26T in the Lemon Bank gas field 55kms ENE of Happisburgh on 24th May 1980. It was transported by helicopter to Norwich Castle Museum on 28th May and then released at Holme Reserve on 31st May where it remained until 6th June.

Also on 14th July, highlights included an adult CASPIAN TERN at Bigwaters NR (Northumberland) intermittently throughout the afternoon, an adult PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Cley NWT reserve (Norfolk), an adult PACIFIC GOLDEN PLOVER in breeding plumage on the Monach Islands (Outer Hebrides), an adult LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER in breeding plumage on the Hayle Estuary (Cornwall) and a flock of 11 Spoonbills at Minsmere RSPB (Suffolk). Sunday 15th produced a SQUACCO HERON briefly at Frieston Pool, 8 miles NNE of Grantham (Lincs).

WILSON’S PETRELS are now summering in the Western Approaches with 4 recorded from ‘The Kingfisher’ off Scilly on 14th, whilst Andy Webb recorded 6 moulting SURF SCOTERS in the huge raft of scoters summering off Murcar Golf Course (Aberdeenshire) (4 adult drakes, a first-summer drake and an adult female).

Long-stayers include the summering and heavily moulting HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL at South Walney (Cumbria) and first-summer GLOSSY IBIS at Marshside Marsh RSPB (Merseyside), whilst eclipse drake Ring-necked Ducks remain at Avonmouth (Avon) and Blithfield Reservoir (Staffs) and at least 8 roaming Eurasian Spoonbills remain. The first-summer Black-throated Diver continues at Draycote Water (Warks).

In IRELAND recently, a BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was on The Mullet at Leam Lough (Co. Mayo) on 15th, two early Great Shearwaters were reported from Streak Head, Crookhaven (Co. Cork) on 14th, and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS was reported from the Rogerstown Estuary (Co. Dublin) on 14th.

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Written by Lee · Filed Under UK400 Club Rare Bird Alerts 

















































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